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2012 International Summer Institute: Global Protest Movements

Speaker

--Mr. Aaron Ammons (Champaign-Urbana Citizens for Peace and Justice)
--Professor Brian Dolinar (African American Studies)
--Professor Ken Cuno (History)
--Professor Rajmohan Gandhi (Global Crossroad Living and Learning Community; CSAMES)
--Professor Glenda Garelli (Urban Planning and Policy, University of Illinois at Chicago)
--Ms. James Kilgore (Center for African Studies)
--Mr. Geshe Lobsang Kunga and Mr. Tenzin Nyamgal (Tibetan Mongolian Buddhist Cultural Center, Bloomington, IN)
--Ms. Lucinda Morgan (College of Education Office of International Programs)
--Mr. Tony Nelson (Autonomous University of Social Movements, Chicago)
--Professor Ken Salo (Urban and Regional Planning)
--Professor Carol Skalnik Leff (Political Science)
--Professor Timothy Wedig (Global Studies)
Date Jun 18, 2012 - Jun 22, 2012
Location University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Cost The institute fee is $150. This includes lodging, most meals, and materials.
Sponsor Center for African Studies; Center for East Asian and Pacific Studies; European Union Center; Center for Global Studies; Center for International Business and Education Research; Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies; Russian, East European and Eurasian Center; Center for South Asian and Middle Eastern Studies; funded in part by the U.S. Department of Education
Contact Angela Williams
E-Mail aswillms@illinois.edu
Phone 217-244-5939
Registration Register online
Event type Conference
Views 15557
Originating Calendar European Union Center Events

This summer’s ISI will feature lectures, films, performance, visual arts and other learning activities to provide cross-regional and global perspectives of protest movements.

The goal of this year's ISI is to provide educators with resources to teach about protests from a global perspective.  While all are welcome to attend, material will be geared towards high school and community college educators. Topics to be discussed include:

--Social justice movements in Mexico
--Artistic expression of protest, including performance and demonstration signs
--South African anti-apartheid and current human rights movements
--the Arab Spring
--Chinese pro-democracy demonstrations
--Indian anti-corruption demonstrations
--Tibet, human rights and independence demonstrations
--Post-Soviet “color revolutions”
--Immigrant rights in the EU
--Global Occupy movement
--Local social justice movements; poetry and spoken word

Participating teachers will receive CPDUs for IL teachers or CEUs for non-IL
teachers.

Lodging will be provided for out-of-town participants.

Deadline for registration is April 15, 2012.


The following films will be screened as part of ISI. Films are open to the public in room 126 LIS, 501 E Daniel St, Champaign, IL (map)

-- Tambien la Lluvia ("Even the Rain")
-- Egypt: The Story behind the Revolutio
-- Please Don't Beat Me, Sir!
-- Putin's Kiss